r. 
e—" Fubilee of 
Women's Foreign 


SHlisstonary Societies 


General Bulletin 


“THE WOMEN THAT PUBLISH THE TIDINGS 
ARE A GREAT HOST" 


Issued by Central Commi ap Order from M. H. Leavis 
on United Study of Missio West Medford, Mass. 


( 3 Ed. 5,000. Jan, 26) 


Almighty God, Lord of the harvest, we humbly 
beseech Thee to send forth more labourers into Thy 
harbest, and especially to put into the hearts of 
many faithful women to give themselves to Thp 
work in the Mission field; that so the bounds of 
Thy blessed kingdom map be enlarged; through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 


Che Woman's Jubilee 


The following description, taken from The 
Presbyterian, admirably explains the reason 
for the Jubilee :— 


HE newest movement in the 

church is the Woman’s National 
Foreign Missionary Jubilee, which has 
been sweeping across the continent, 
from the Pacific toward the Atlantic, 
and will reach its climax in New York 
in April. 

Did this marvelous movement begin 
the other day in Oakland, Cal., or ten 
years ago, when, at the Ecumenical 
Conference in New York, the Central 
Committee on United Study was 
formed, or fifty years ago, when Mrs. 
T. C. Doremus started what might be 
called the first women’s club, The 
Woman’s Union Missionary Society? 
‘‘Launched on the eve of the Civil 
War by persons inexperienced in public 
affairs, opposed by the clergy, without 


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financial backing, this corporate body 
is now one of forty Boards with 57,483 
auxiliary missionary societies in the 
United States and Canada, which last 
year raised $3,328,840.” In this inter- 
denominational school of missions our 
mothers and grandmothers learned their 
first lessons before it occurred to them 
to form Boards within the limits of 
their own Christian communions, 

Skip forty years, and meet with a 
handful of the women delegates to the 
Ecumenical Conference on Missions, 
in New York, in 1900, under the leader- 
ship of Miss Abby B. Child, at that 
time representing the Woman’s Board 
of Missions. They have rippled off 
from the general swirl of the Confer- 
ence into a little eddy of their own to 
scheme for the study of missions, 
under the conviction that foreign mis- 
sions is too vast a subject simply to be 
read about. 

An interdenominational committee is 
formed, the first text-book published, 
study classes spring up apace. Inten 
years more than six hundred thousand 
of these text-books have been sold. 

This year’s book is timely, a review 
of the fifty years of woman’s organized 
work for foreign missions. To the 
Central Committee on United Study 
was vouchsafed a vision to which they 
have not been disobedient —no less a 
thing than a celebration which should 
stretch from shore toshore. Not fonder 
of demonstrations, perhaps, than are 
some of the rest of us, they nevertheless 
saw that after fifty years of quiet effec- 
tive demonstration in foreign lands, the 
time had come for a national celebration 
at home. 


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The Jubilee Begins 


The beginning of the great Jubilee meet- 
ings was in Oakland, Cal., October 12, 1910. 
With only three weeks for preparation they 
met the situation nobly. We have taken 
from one of our women’s missionary maga- 
zines the following account of the Western 
meetings written by an eyewitness :— 

From the first the meetings have 
been powerful beyond anticipation. It 
is impossible to give an adequate des- 
cription; but certain features were 
deeply impressed upon all those who 
attended the series. 

First.—The missionary appeal was 
sufficient to draw crowded audiences in 
every city. The largest churches were 
filled, session after session, and in some 
cases overflow meetings held for those 
unable to gain admission. At the 
luncheons from eight to fifteen hundred 
women paid for the privilege of attend- 
ing. Cincinnati held the record num- 
ber, 1,525; with Indianapolis a close 
second, 1,500, and Denver, Seattle, 
Kansas City, Chicago and Detroit with 
a thousand or more. 

Second.—The audiences were not 
only large, but also deeply moved by 
the missionary appeal. A new world- 
vision seemed to sway them; a new re- 
sponse to the fact that missions are not 
a product, reflex, or side issue of Chris- 
tianity, but are Christianity itself—its 
very essence. The most enthusiastic 
response was not to the thrilling story 
of heroism, or the moving appeal of 
dire need, but to the setting forth of the 
individual responsibility of Christians 
to the World’s Redeemer. 

_ Third.—The place and influence of 
the drawing room as a factor in great 
movements received fresh testimony. 


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Wherever a woman had put herself 
back of her house in the invitations to 
a drawing-room meeting, there it was 
possible to gather together large num- 
bers of the women not often found in 
the missionary societies. 

Lfourth.—The emphasis laid on the 
study class as a means of missionary 
propaganda resulted in the formation 
of many classes in churches, Sunday 
schools and homes, for the study of the 
present text-book. In one church 
twenty groups of women were organ- 
ized to meet weekly for prayer and 
study. 

fifth.—In every convention stress 
was put on the comparatively small 
number of women already enlisted in 
missionary endeavor, and the obligation 
of active propaganda which this lays 
upon missionary women. In some 
of the church rallies the women, by a 
rising vote, pledged each to secure an- 
other member for her society. The 
definite method of a membership can- 
vass conducted by a thoroughly in- 
structed committee going out two by 
two to every woman in the congrega- 
tion, was adopted in many instances. 
For the first time many denominations 
had carefully prepared charts showing 
the exact proportion already enlisted. 
In some cases auxiliaries pledged a fif- 
teen or twenty per cent annual increase 
in membership as an end to be persist- 
ently and systematically sought. 

Stxth.—While the raising of money 
was in no sense the prime object of 
the conventions, the supreme obligation 
of sacrificial giving was steadily 
presented. The vastness of the work, 
the injustice of ranking it as a minor 


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charity, the unparalleled money power 
in the hands of women as well as of 
men, the sinister growth of luxury, the 
widening opportunities before the 
church, were presented by many 
speakers with persuasive power. 
When, in the various church rallies, 
the opportunity was given for Jubilee 
thank-offerings, the reponse was sig- 
nificant. Over three hundred thousand 
dollars was given for permanent memo- 
rials of the Jubilee year in buildings 
and endowment. In Indianapolis $85, - 
000 was pledged; in Kansas City, 
$54,000; in Chicago, $36,000. Many 
women who had never given more than 
fifty dollars to missions gave the salary 
of a missionary or the equipment of a 
hospital. It was realized as never be- 
fore that the standards of giving which 
were right and just for our mothers are 
not adequate for their daughters. Two 
cents a week might be noble in the 
days of poverty, and absolutely ignoble 
in days of plenty. 

Seventh.—The note of prayer was 
everywhere the deepest undertone of 
the meetings. Wherever the prayer 
preparation had in any degree been 
lacking there a diminution of power 
was felt. Wherever prayer had 
abounded there a strong sense of the 
spiritual was present. In Denver ‘‘an 
upper room’’ held bands of praying 
women while the sessions were in 
progress. In Kansas City for four 
weeks before the meeting cottage 
prayer meetings had been held 
throughout the city. Speaker after 
speaker emphasized the fact that 
women’s missionary work was born in 
prayer, and urged the privilege of 


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definite, specific, intercessory prayer 
as the secret of success at home and 
abroad. 

Lighth.—The most triumphant 
note of the meetings was that of unity. 
The local committees of from one to 
two hundred women rejoiced in a new 
consciousness of their oneness in 
Christ. The ten or eleven women 
who in each convention reported the 
denominational rallies, exemplified in 
their reports the unity of the work. 
The great audiences were one heart, 
one soul, as they listened to the story 
of the slow-rising empire of Christ in 
the Far East. 

Livingstone’s great word to Stanley, 
‘**The end of the exploration is the be- 
ginning of the undertaking,’’ in the 
form in which it had been paraphrased 
at Edinburgh, ‘‘the end of the con- 
vention is the beginning of the cam- 
paign,’’ was adopted as a slogan of 
the Jubilee. -Word that comes from 
every city shows that as never before 
women are bending themselves to the 
carrying out of the three-fold purpose 
of the Jubilee meetings: to gain a 
better conception of the opportunity 
confronting the Christian church in 
the Orient, to deepen the prayer life, 
to enlarge the sense of obligation and 
the contributions of Christian women. 


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Our Jubilee Offering 


It is proposed that we, the Christian 
women of the United States, bring to 
our Lord this year a jubilee offering of 
a million dollars, which shall be used 
for the salvation of women and children 
in non-Christian lands. Measured by 
our ability, compared with the billions 
we shall spend this year on our own 
comfort and luxuries, it is not a great 
gift. It seems very little divided among 
five hundred million Christless women. 

For the honor and dignity of our Lord 
let this be wholly a love offering. No 
strenuous campaign nor fervid appeal 
was needed for the beautiful womanly 
gifts that Christ made immortal. The 
alabaster box, the two mites of the 
widow were the overflow of loving 
hearts. Surely our love for Him is not 
less than theirs. The great need is to 
bring this opportunity to every Chris- 
tian woman as soon as possible. With 
the fine organization of our Women’s 
Boards this can easily be done. We 
would make certain conditions if it 
were possible: that it be a gift from 
women and girls, that it be offered 
prayerfully, that it be given not grudg- 
ingly nor of necessity. 

Our Jubilee aim is a million dollars 
and many more interested women. 
We shall reach it by united effort, by 
personal service, by earnest prayer. 

Our means of approach may be 
through the union, meetings, where the 
facts will be strongly stated; through 
literature, which our Boards will pro- 
vide; by conversation at home and 
among our friends; by personal letters 
and invitation; by facing the facts our- 


selves, and giving as our love prompts 
and as our Lord hath prospered. 


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The Jubilee in the West 


The Central Committee is indebted 
to the Western Committee in Chicago 
which was so helpful in the plans for 
the West. The Chairman, Mrs. 
Edmund Osbornson, visited most of 
the Jubilee cities and met the com- 
mittees, giving valuable assistance in 
preparation. 

Between October 12 and November 
21 Jubilee meetings were held in fifteen 
centers in the West. 

Oakland, Cal., Portland, Ore., Se- 
attle, Wash., Denver, Colo., Lincoln, 
Neb., Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Mo., 
St. Louis, Mo., St. Paul, Minn., Min- 
neapolis, Minn., Milwaukee, Wis., 
Chicago, IIl., Indianapolis, Ind., Cin- 
cinnati, O., Detroit, Mich. 

Large meetings were also held at 
Northwestern University and De Pauw 
University. 


The Jubilee in the East and South 


After a pause for Thanksgiving and 
Christmas, the Southern and Eastern 
Jubilees begin. The dates are :— 

Cleveland, January 23, 24; Louis- 
ville, January 26, 27; Nashville, Jan- 
uary 80, 31; Washington, February 2, 
8; Baltimore, February 7, 8; Harris- 
burg, February 9, 10; Philadelphia, 
February 18, 14; Pittsburg, February 
16, 17; Buffalo, February 23, 24; 
Albany and Troy, March 2, 8; Spring- 
field, March 6, 7; New Haven, March 
8, 9; Providence, March 10, 11; Bos- 
ton, March 14, 15; Portland, March 
16, 17; New York, April 4, 5, 6. 

The West has through its fifteen ju- 
bilees already held, pledged $300,000. 
The South and East will now have an 
opportunity through the sixteen jubilees 
planned. And all states, cities and 
towns not reached by these large gath- 
erings, will respond through the smaller 
meetings, for which preparations are 
being made. 


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Progress in the South and East 


The Committees are most of them 
well under way. Two decided to wait 
until after Christmas before completing 
organization, but preliminary work has 
been done, and delightful reports reach 
us of perfect unity, earnestness in 
prayer, thoroughness in preparation, 
and splendid faith and enthusiasm. If 
we may judge from the attractive, per- 
suasive literature of the Committees, 
great audiences are assured. The 
speakers expected are Mrs. Montgom- 
ery, Miss Miller, Dr. Noble of India, 
Miss Hughes of China, Miss Osborne, 
also of China, Miss Emery and others. 
The Chairmen of the Eastern Jubilees 
are as follows :— 


Mrs. Levi Scofield, Baldwin Place, Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

Mrs. J. B. Marvin, 1885 Fourth Avenue, 
Louisville, Ky. 

Mrs. W. E. Norvell, 1018 19th Avenue 
South, Nashville, Tenn. 

Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, 1200 K Street, 
Washington, D. C. 

Mrs. John T. King, 1425 Eutaw Place, 
Baltimore, Md. 

Mrs. Wm. Jennings, 232 State Street, 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

Miss Susan Lodge, 1720 Arch Street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

( Mrs. John Miller, 222 Hawthorne Street, 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
rl Mrs. Mary Clokey Porter, 15 Marshall 

Avenue, Allegheny, Pa. 

Miss Harriet M. Buck, 518 Franklin 
Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Mrs. Wm. Gurley, 84 Fulton Street, 
Troy, N. Y. 

Mrs. D. O. Mears, 53 Ten Broek Street, 
Albany, N. Y. 

Mrs. C. H. Burnham, 167 Bowles Street, 
Springfield, Mass. 

Mrs. W. H. Fairchild, 218 Crown St., 
New Haven, Conn. 

* Mrs. W. H. P. Faunce, Providence, R. I. 

Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer Thayer, 30 Fen- 
way, Boston, Mass. . 

Mrs. John Thompson, 253 State Street, 
Portland, Me. 

* Temporary Chairmen, 

Norr.—At the request of the Jubilee Com- 
mittees the, Central Committee has published 
a folder with hymns, to be used at the meet- 
ings. This, with the general bulletin and 
text-book may be ordered in quantities from 
M. H. Leavis, West Medford, Mass., or from 
mission boards. 


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The National Jubilee 


The New York Committee sends a 
cordial invitation to delegates from 
other cities to attend the Jubilee to be 
held in New York, March 28-30, 1911. 

Mrs. John B. Calvert, Chairman of 
Entertainment Committee, 201 W. 57th 
St., will be happy to answer any queries 
regarding hotels, boarding houses, etc. 

Park Avenue Hotel and the Martha 
Washington are recommended as inex- 
pensive and pleasant houses. 

Tickets for the luncheon may be ob- 
tained from Mrs. C. F. Hoffman, 620 
Fifth Ave., Chairman of Places of 
Meeting Committee. 


[Please note change of dates from April 
4-6 as given in first edition. ] 


New York Committee on Preparation 


Chairman, 
Mrs. SAMUEL BROADWELL, 387 E. 64th St. 


Vice Chairmen, 
Mrs. WILLIAM P. PRENTICE, 
Mrs. Davin J. BURRELL, 
Mrs. W. B. CRalG, 
Mrs. Witi1aM I. HAVEN, 
Mrs. NEWELL D. HILLIs, 
Dr. ANGENETTE PARRY, 
Mrs. JoHN GREENOUGH, 
Mrs. ALBERT G. ROPES, 
Mrs. BARRETT, 
Mrs. DecatuR M. SAWYER. 


Secretary, 
Mrs. DeWirr Knox, 1744 Broadway. 


Treasurer, 
Miss FLORENCE E. FELLOWS, 
1312 Madison Av. 


Chairmen of Sub-Committees 


Publicity, Miss Avice M. Davison. 
Prayer Circles, Mrs. J. H. KNOWLES. 
Places of Meeting, Mrs. C. F. HoFFMAN. 
Finance, Mrs. E. E. OLcort. 
Entertainment, Mrs. JOHN B. CALVERT. 
Young Women, 

Miss GERTRUDE E MACARTHUR. 
Music, Miss Laura J. Post. 
Literature, Mrs. J. R. ROGERS. 
Parlor Meetings, Mrs. H. O. ARMOUR. 

The Central Committee on the United 
Study of Missions will make its headquarters, 
during the New York Jubilee, at the Murray 
Hill Hotel, two blocks from the Grand 
Central Station. 

The Committee will reserve Monday, March 
27, preceding the Jubilee, as a Quiet Day for 
prayer and conference and will welcome the 
presence of oflicers and members of Women’s 
Missionary Boards, with Chairmen of Ju- 
bilee Committees, East and West. 


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Program for United Jubilee Meetings 


in Smaller Cities and Towns 


It is proposed to hold united Jubilee 
meetings in as many cities and towns 
as possible during February and March. 
The object is to give to women the 
pleasure and inspiration of meeting 
together and learning of the work of 
all the Boards. It is also desirable 


that they should know about the 
progress of the Jubilee and the great 
united effort to bring to our Lord a 
Jubilee Offering of $1,000,000, which 
will be devoted to work for women 
and children of non-Christian lands. 
It is most important that they meet for 
united prayer. 

A program for such union meetings 
provides for an all-day and evening 
meeting, or may be brought into two 
sessions, afternoon and evening. The 
territory covered by each meeting may 
be one town or city or adjacent towns 
as the local committees may decide. 

With the combined talent of all the 
churches, it is not necessary to have a 
speaker sent by the Boards, though 
it is desirable. In order to supply 
speakers, many Boards are uniting their 
forces to provide them, with as great 
econemy as possible. It is hoped that 
the entire country may be covered. The 
general plan of these smaller Jubilee 
Meetings is similar to those already 
held in the West. An opportunity for 
prayer, a résumé of the past fifty years 
as a whole; reports of their boards by 
representatives of the various churches, 
a social hour at the luncheon which is 
far more than social if wisely conducted ; 
the denominational meetings when each 
goes by itself to consider what more it 
can do, the coming together with reports 
of these rallies which inspire and stimu- 
late; the singing of praises to God; the 
inspiration of an address from secretary 
or missionary. These constitute the 
Jubilee. | 


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Some Practical Suggestions 


If the luncheon tickets are paid for, 
it will free the women of the churches 
who should be present at the meet- 
ings, and will furnish a small fund for 
payment of a speaker’s expenses, if 
one is sent. 

Let notices be given in the local 
press and church calendars for two 
weeks before the meeting. Select a 
centrally located church where women 
can be heard easily. Plan for a large 
attendance. Put the matter into the 
hands of a committee of all the 
churches, at least two from each. 
Select a choir of young women to lead 
the singing which should be worship- 
ful. Dispense with solos which break 
the continuity of the service. 

If an evening meeting is held invite 
all the young women’s circles to march 
into the church under their various 
denominational banners, singing as a 
processional ‘‘O Zion, Haste.” These 
may serve as the choir. 


; PROGRAM 
Morning Session 


10.00 Bible Reading. 

Topic, ‘‘Some Exemplary Wom- 
en of the Bible.” The leader 
gives five or sixas types,—Mi- 
riam, Deborah, Hannah, Mary, 
Dorcas, Rhoda,—and then calls 
for others, and the qualities 
they illustrate. 

10.80 Address, ‘‘ Fifty Years of Wom- 
an’s Work in Foreign Mis- 
sions.” Let this be an address 
rather than a paper, based on 
‘¢ Western Women in Eastern 
Lands.” It should occupy not 
more than half an hour, and 
should cover the needs of the 
fields, kinds and amount of 
work accomplished, what re- 
mains to be done. 


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11.00 Ten-minute Talks from _ repre- 
sentatives of the various de- 
nominations, giving as many 
facts as can be crowded into 
the time, about the work of 
their own boards. 
11.45 The Story of the Jubilee. (Bul- 
letin) or speaker, if present. 
12.00 Prayer Service. (See page 15.) 
Luncheon with brief addresses fol- 
lowing, and presentation of pioneers. 
In every church are some who can re- 
call beginnings. Let these be guests 
of honor. 


Afternoon Session 


2.00 Denominational Rallies in sepa- 
rate rooms, with presentation 
of the Board plans, literature 
and pledges, with discussion. 
Let each Chairman be ap- 
pointed, to report to the re- 
united session later—number 

present, amount pledged, plans 
for more aggressive effort. 

3.30 Singing, Prayer, Reports of 
Chairmen of Rallies. Closing 
Address. 


(If an evening meeting is held, the 
women may go home from the denom- 
inational rallies, to meet in the evening 
for reports and addresses. Or sessions 
may be afternoon and evening, with 
supper. Bulletins, circulars, hymns 
and other needed material furnished by 
the various mission boards on  ap- 
plication. Apply also to boards for 
speakers as early as possible. Any 
town with three or four churches may 
have a Jubilee.) 


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SUGGESTED SUBJECTS FOR PRAYER 
Following the Plan of the 


World’s Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 


THANKSGIVING 


For being alive in this critical period of the 
world’s history. 

That we are not given only easy things to do. 

That no work given need alarm us. 

That work shirked in the past does not deter 
God from again taking us into part- 
nership. 

For pioneers in work in foreign lands. 

For pioneers in the home side of the work. 

For the privilege of learning from others. 


PENITENCE 


For our unbelief, hardness of heart and 
laziness. 


‘© They limited the Holy One of Israel.” 
‘6 FTe did not many mighty works there 
because of their unbelief.” 


For remissness, faithlessness and lack of im- 
agination in prayer. 

For the blindness that fails to see the great- 
ness of the present opportunity. 

For the lack of sympathetic understanding 
of the missionaries and of each other. 

For the tendency to glorify self in all our 
work. For the meagerness of our work. 

For our lack of interest in what we cannot 
see. For racial antipathies. 


PETITION 


That those unaware of missions, or indif- 
ferent to them, may through the Jubilee 
get a vision of things as they are, and 
that they may give themselves freely to 
the work either abroad or at home. 

That in the cities nowcelebrating the Jubilee, 
the appointed program, as far as it rep- 
resents God’s will, may be victoriously 
carried out. 

That the Jubilee may glorify God, and no- 
where degenerate into mere glorification 
of woman’s work. 

That the speakers, as well as the chairmen 
and members of committees who have 
undertaken special responsibilities, may 
be given wisdom and buoyancy in their 
work. 

That the spiritual motive may be supreme in 
every detail of the preparation. 

That the work may be completed within 
the time appointed. 

That every Society represented may con- 
tribute in full measure the fruit of ite 
experience 


Q Braver for HMlissions 
Ait Over the World 


QP od, who hast made of 
one blood all nations 


of men for to dtuell on the 


face of the tohole earth, and 
didst send thy blessed Son 
to preach peace to them 
that are far off and to them 
that are nigh; Grant that 
all men eberpinhere map 
seek after thee and find 
thee. Bring the nations 
into tip fold, and add the 
heathen to thine tiberitance. 
Gnd we prap thee shortly 
fo accomplish the number 
of thine elect, and to hasten 
thy kingdom; through the 
game Jesus Christ our 
Lord. Amen. 


{From the Book of Common Prayer, p, 16] 


